Erica Wurtz
1964Born Bethesda, Maryland
EDUCATION
1987BA Ceramics, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
1993MFA Ceramics, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts
APPRENTICESHIPS & RESIDENCIES
1982-1983Apprentice to Peter Kaiser, Baltimore, Maryland
PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE
1994-Present Studio Potter
Erica Wurtz is known for stoneware functional pots and nonfunctional abstracted vessels and sculpture, some wall pieces, some tabletop, some larger. Various parts of each piece are wheel thrown, left until leather hard, then assembled. Many pieces are double-walled. The matte glazes are often sprayed on.
Erica Wurtz sites as influences her undergraduate teachers, Stanley Rosen and Jane Ford Aebersold, her graduate school professors, Chris Gustin, and Karon Doherty, Cubism, and collage.
Bibliography
Hluch, Kevin A. The Art of Contemporary Pottery. Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2000.
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Erica Wurtz typically signs her name, in script, incised into base of pot.
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